Re: Publicly accessible directory?

Tim Greer wrote:
Joyce of Pendle wrote:

Only my husband and myself will use the machine. We certainly
won't enable remote access, and will take steps to prevent it
once we actually have sensitive information on it. ATM the
router is the firewall.

Have you considered just sharing the same account?

That's where we started. But I like a nice backdrop (changed daily)
with no desktop icons, he likes what his backdrop invisible behind
links to files. We each work best in our own choice of environment.
However, I do wonder if it would have been easier to write a script
to change desktop, screensaver, et al.

I thought I wanted to use the KDE desktop, but I find it
counter-intuitive and slow (my son uses it but does his work from
the command line; I think he has to!) The busy icon is great, and a
lot of software came with the install, so I'm happy. The KDE user
will be deleted in due course.

Anyway, I suppose it would be safe enough to allow world read and
write, but just like sharing the group, be more careful than what
you'd consider normally careful when modifying, overwriting,
deleting files, etc..

Well, obviously, I won't modify his files and he won't modify mine
(if the name of the folder is the name of a person, it is private -
regardless of permissions). We didn't have unshared folders until
we started using WinXP in November, and all my "My Junk" folders
there are empty.

Joyce.

Joyce.

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